My wife has left for work, and now I am left home, alone, with no vehicle and nothing I want to eat. She left the Brita filter out, so there is no water, she left the bread out and open. I almost feel like she is sabotaging my attempts at getting fit through eating healthier. I look outside, and while it is snowing, I know in twenty minutes I could be at the convenience store buying junk food, and it is so tempting to do so.
When the closest food source is junk food, I find myself sometimes saying “well, you are walking all the way there and back, so that gives you the right to buy some junk food.”
I then tell myself that I will only buy a small amount before returning home with two burgeoning bags filled with bottles of pop, big bags of chips, licorice, and chocolate bars.
I haven’t been starving myself by any means, but I am finding cravings very hard to control and resist. It would have been nice if the wife had done some grocery shopping while I was gone, as the vegetables that are left from when I went on my trip are no longer very good.
What is a guy to do? Why don’t convenience stores ever sell reasonably healthy food?
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Let’s say the convenience store is a 1 KM round trip for you - at your current weight, that would burn 123 calories, or about half the calories in a small bag of M&Ms. You can use the Gmaps Pedometer to check that - http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/. A handy feature is that this site can “save” routes for you.
As to why convenience stores don’t carry healthy foods, I’m not 100% certain, as ours has a limited supply of fruit on handy, but I imagine there just isn’t any demand for it.
*You* have to start going grocery shopping too, and making point of buying health snacks for yourself.